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The failure of Thomas Cook is a timely reminder of the destructive power that excessive debt can have on shareholder value. Investors have been wiped out by the strain of the package holiday firm’s £1.5bn ...

On a normal, relatively quiet Monday afternoon on 9 September, some shares experienced a sharp move with no associated corporate news flow attached. As it later turned out, the same thing was happening to stocks with ...

The Chancellor has refused to review a decision on whether to scrap the controversial Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation in the short-term, despite reputable statisticians saying it is a flawed measure of ...

There has been a dearth of companies floating on the UK stock market this year, perhaps understandably given Brexit-induced volatility. A mere 25 companies have floated in London so far in 2019, compared with 87 in ...

Fund managers, banks and City lobby organisations are understood to be working on ground breaking proposals that could cut stock market trading hours in the UK and across Europe, opening an hour later at 9am and closing ...

WHAT HAS HAPPENED? The state-directed Chinese yuan currency moved through the seven per dollar threshold on 5 August for the first time since the global financial crisis in 2008. This provoked the US Treasury ...

The FANGs and other big US tech stocks are being viewed through the lens of record high share prices by investors worried about a US stock market on the point of overheating. Yet many of the biggest and ...

Fund managers are being encouraged to disclose more details about their portfolios in the name of transparency. However we’ve found that many managers are still very guarded when it comes to revealing their short ...

Following on from our discussion of the importance of corporate governance and business ethics, and how short-term reporting can distract management from focusing on long-term goals, this week we look at an issue which ...

A disappointing trading update from building materials firm SIG (SHI) on 5 July was the latest bit of bad news from the UK construction sector. It follows a series of negative data points and gloomy commentary from ...